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When Pancho arrives at St. Anthony''s Home, he knows his time there will be short: If his plans succeed, he''ll soon be arrested for the murder of his sister''s killer. But then he''s assigned to help D.Q., whose brain cancer has slowed neither his spirit nor his mouth.

From the Publisher:Relocated to a boys' home while plotting to kill his sister's murderer, Pancho is unexpectedly assigned to be a companion to brain-cancer patient, D.Q., who regales Pancho with descriptions of the Death Warrior creed and the honorable example of the beautiful Marisol. By the author of Marcelo in the Real World.

Praise

"Stork weaves racial and familial tension, tentative romances, and themes of responsibility and belief through the story, as the boys unite over the need to determine the course of their lives." 01/11/2010